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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929. PAGE THREE UWEP BV FRANK. B. PR1 Seventh Installment WHAT HAPPENED BO PAS The Sheridan Dramatic Club, of wnicn Tom Bilbeck, the narrator, Mary ella, the girl he cares for, and Jim Onnnpr hi. rival dm n.A.v.A... performance of Pygmalion and' Galatea vjiu ouiu:er nome, dui are in terrupted by a Are. During the re hearsals Tom Bilbeck is accused by the nusuana 01 one oi tne actors. Mr. Hem. infirWMV flf holnv In l...rA V.1. ..If. ?.i ' ""'b ' Willi Ills WI1C. Riding away from the scene of the Ill-fated play In their costumes and up by two esraped convicts, one of iium ib .utjjiurcu uy jiuuecK aner a NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He obeyed meekly enough. "Will you answer one question?" ne asked deferentially. "Yes. What?" "Are you a ghost?" "No." "Then what are you?" "I only agreed to answer one question." "Oh!" He was obviously disappointed. "What are you going to do with me " "Turn you over to the sheriff, suppose." The sound of the shot had arous ed curiosity at the Old Soldiers' Home, and now half a dozen of the most nearly complete of the inmates led by Colonel Stewart came down the road in military or der. They were armed with rifles and had bayonets fixed. I learned afterwards that the weapons were SpaniBh-American War trophies which were not loaded and had not been fired for sixteen years. We told the Colonel what had happened and he sent one of the old men back to the home with the ladles with Instructions to telephone the sheriff . The rest of us went after the other escaped prisoner. He had broken away from the road and gone into a patch of woods that lay longside, as we could easily tell by his fresh tracks in the snow. It seemed as if it was going to be a comparatively simple matter to trail him. We changed our minds, however, when the tracks led out of the com parative quiet of the timber-land to a meadow. Here they ceased abruptly. There was enough wind blowing so that the snow was kept clear in some places and drifted in others. He had evidently avoided the drifts. We had only one lantern or we could have searched to better ad vantage and by spreading out might have picked up the foot prints without much delay. As It was we worked slowly and ineffect ually. A complete circle of the field gave us no clue. The snow was falling more rapidly now and even our own tracks were filled In very soon after we made them. I was anxolus to get started, too, while the roads were not badly drifted. "I think we've done all we can to-night." I suggested to Colonel Stewart. "That fellow is going to have a hard time traveling very far in this storm and probably he'll lay low somewhere until It lets up. The Bheriff can organize a big posse and pick him up after daylight" The colonel agreed. He was anx ious to get his men under cover. We took our prisoner back to the Home. There we found the lady Greeks sitting around disconsolate with their wraps on amid a group of negligee but wide-awake old sol diers having the time of their lives over the extra attraction of a thief hunt There were no handcuffs in the Institution, naturally, so we bound our prisoner to a chair pending the arrival of the Bheriff. He looked dis consolate enough. I was suddenly sorry for him. Poor fellow, all he had done was to make a break for liberty. It was only because we were all against him that he was against us. "Hard luck, old chap," I said to him. He looked up at me. "It's all right," he said. "I don't mind a bit I'm glad to stay in here overnight where it's warm. I'm kind of wor ried about Julius, though, out there in the snow. I wish you'd got him too. He's delicate, and I'm afraid he'll catch cold." "Well, I'm going home," I said by way of farewell. "But before I go is there anything I can do for you?" "Not unless you're going to tell me what you are wearing those white things for. Did somebody steal your 'No, they didn't," I snapped, turning away. "Ain't you going to tell me?" "No." I rejoined the rest of our group around the fire. 'I'll go out and start the car," I notified them, "and back up to the gate once more. When you hear me outside you can come out" Let me go with you," Jim Coop er offered. I would just as soon have gone alone, but there seemed no way of declining his assistance, so we trail ed out in the snow together with an oil lantern flickering unsteadily in the wind. It was only a few hundred yards to where the automobile was stand ing, but the wind, which was In creasing, threw the snow Into our faces in stinging blasts that made walking difficult and conversation practically Impossible. The lights of the car were still bravely hurling wedges of illumina tion into the black-and-white night The seats were covered with snow. 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Otty ASSETS OVER f 1,000.000.00 UNDER STATE SUPERVISION Western Savings & Loan Y.M.CA. Building Association Portland Oregon "Bang!" responded Grandmother Page enthusiastically. The first explosion was followed by a hideous clashing sound and then a terrifying thumping which could be heard even above the ex plosion of the motor. "Cut her off!" I yelled. When Grandmother Page had subsided, Jim Cooper asked solici tously: "What's the matter?" "Didn't you hear the racket she was making?" I asked sarcastically. I dldn t notice anything special, Jim observed, which remark put him by unanimous vote into the Loyal Order of Henwethers. Pilk had nothing on him for saying the wrong thing. In silent exasperation I lifted the hood and with the aid of the flicker ing lantern exmained Grandmoth er's gizzard. One look was enough. I closed the hood once more and stood si lent, communing with nature. Something In my manner must have penetrated Jim Cooper's con sciousness. "Is anything the matter?" he asked. "There is," I announced briefly. "The pump froze while we were hunting for escaped convicts, and as soon as I started the engine she stripped her gear. She won't run again until I get some new parts from the factory." I turned out the acetylene lights and started home. Jim Cooper fol lowed silently. Half way to the Home he said brightly: It's all for the best, Tom. Think how glad the automobile-repairmen will be." When we entered the ladies stood up ready to go. I didn't hear you come," said Maryella. "The car is awfully quiet to-night isn't it?" "It Is," I assented glumly. And will be for several days to come." When I had explained what had happened a cry of dismay escaped the lips of Mrs. Hemingway. I promised John I would come right home as soon as the perform ance was over, and he will be ter ribly anxious," she wailed. I wish I had gone home in the funeral bus," bemoaned Mrs. Lilllelove. I wish you had," I echoed feel ingly. "It's probably all for the best," chirped Jim Cooper like a parrot. (Ornithologist's note: Parrots do not chirp.)4 "Where do you find the ray of comfort in this?" I demanded sarcastically. "That's easy," Jim explained. "For one thing I am glad that It wasn't my car. For another.it will give us all a chance to spend the night in an Old Soldiers' Home, which is something post people who aren't veterans can't do." "Spend the night here?" Mrs. Hemmingway exclaimed in dismay. "It's impossible. I have to go home!" "How?" "I don't know how, but you must think up some way." "Nonsense!" I exclaimed. "It can't be done .to-night There's no train until morning. You can call up your husband and explain it to him." "Oh, is there a telephone?" "Sure. There must be," said Jim Cooper. "You talk to John and tell him it's all for the best" "I'll try," Mrs. Hemmingway said cheerfully. The telephone was conveniently located in the living-room so that all private conversations were dis tinctly audible to any one in the building. After considerable delay in get ting a long-distance connection. Mrs. Hemmingway managed to get the ear of her husband, who fortun ately had not left the office. "Is that you, John?" she asked in the telephone. Apparently it was. "Well, listen, John dear, I can't get home tonight I'm going to stay all night at the Old Soldiers' Home." The rest of us tried to talk about something else so as not to appear to be listening, but we couldn't help it, and a sudden silence fell at her next remark. "Yes, of course, Tom Bilbeck is here. It's all for the best." The receiver hummed for a mo ment Even we knew that he had raised his voice. "Silly; of course I'd come home if I could. But Tom,broke his automobile." 'No, no. purpose." He didn't break it on "Listen, dear, you mustn't say such things over the telephone. Some one might be listening. 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